Greed Quotes - Page 25

• I don't think that fundamentalism has anything to do with Jesus Christ. They call themselves Christians, but if that's Christian, count me out. Fundamentalism is built on fear and greed. They're telling you to give them your money otherwise you're going to hell.

  Matthew Fox

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home.

  Pope Francis

  Home, Men, Idols

  Pope Francis (2016). “Care for Creation: A Call for Ecological Conversion”, p.20, Orbis Books

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• The trick, though, is to not lose compassion, to not allow the sense of absurdity to outweigh the awareness of real beings, with real feelings. Mean-spirited humor turns the world into cardboard, the way Midas's simple-minded greed turned food into inedible and useless stuff.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Real, Mean, Simple

  Source: www.americanmicroreviews.com

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• Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam, have all come to the conclusion that what holds us back from our better self is ego, selfishness, greed, unkindness, hatred. And it all springs from a sense of thwarted ego.

  Karen Armstrong

  Spring, Buddhism, Talking

  "Big Think Interview With Karen Armstrong". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 16, 2009.

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• The life of each and every one of us has been written. The crucifix is my autobiography. The blood is the ink. The nails the pen. The skin the parchment. On every line of that body I can trace my life. In the crown of thorns I can read my pride. In the hands that are dug with nails, I can read avarice and greed. In the flesh hanging from him like purple rags, I can read my lust. In feet that are fettered, I can find the times that I ran away and would not let him follow. Any sin that you can think of is written there.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Pride, Thinking, Blood

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• What is the opposite of abundance? It's not scarcity. It's greed. Greed is the belief that there is not enough for everyone, so you'd better grab yours now. What is the opposite of love? It's not hate. It's fear. Fear is the belief that someone or something can hurt you.

  Robert G. Allen

  Hurt, Hate, Opposites

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• The cause of all these evils was the lust for power arising from greed and ambition; and from these passions proceeded the violence of parties once engaged in contention.

  Thucydides

  Party, Passion, Ambition

  Thucydides, Victor Davis Hanson, Robert B. Strassler (2008). “The Landmark Thucydides”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• The Enron scandal calls into question the integrity of the entire capitalist system, which previously we assumed was based on honest, straightforward greed.

  Joel Achenbach

  Integrity, Enron Scandal, Honest

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• It's coming to America first, The cradle of the best and of the worst. It's here they got the range And the machinery for change And it's here they got the spiritual thirst. It's here the family's broken And it's here the lonely say That the heart has got to open In a fundamental way: Democracy is coming to the U.S.A. O mighty Ship of State! To the Shores of Need Past the Reefs of Greed Through the Squalls of Hate Sail on, sail on.

  Leonard Cohen

  Spiritual, Lonely, Hate

  Leonard Cohen (2008). “The Lyrics of Leonard Cohen: Enhanced Edition”, p.66, Omnibus Press

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• The law has been perverted through the influence of two very different causes-naked greed and misconceived philanthropy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Law, Two, Different

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• They say 74% of everything you're learning in college is a bunch of bullshit you'll never need 83.4% of everything you've got, you bought to satisfy you're greed Because 91% of the world's population links their pssessions to success Even though 88% of the wealthiest 1% of the population drinks to an alarming excess More money more stress.

  Todd Snider

  Stress, College, Bullshit

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• Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

  Henry Spencer

  Want, Results, Fine

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• Since time immemorial and pre-industrial, 'greed' has been the accusation hurled at the rich by the concrete-bound illiterates who were unable to conceive of the source of wealth or of the motivation of those who produce it.

  Ayn Rand

  Motivation, Wealth, Rich

  Ayn Rand (1966). “Capitalism, the Unknown Ideal”, Signet Book

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• Sacrifice, so that you may be saved. You have to sacrifice, not a bleating sheep or a horse or a cow, but your animality, the bestial lust and greed, hate and malice. Sacrifice these and you earn the heaven of unflinching peace.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Horse, Hate, Sacrifice

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• By an increase in anger, warfare arises. By an increase of greed, famine arises. By an increase of stupidity, pestilence arises. Because these three calamities occur, the people's earthly desires grow all the more intense, and their false views thrive and multiply.

  Nichiren

  Views, People, Stupidity

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• In the bible homosexuality is condemned, but along with divorce and greed and callousness toward poor people. So its elevation to a highest priority among some religious groups has been very disturbing to me.

  Jimmy Carter

  Religious, Divorce, People

  "Our Endangered Values". Interview with Jeff Fleischer, www.motherjones.com. June 2, 2006.

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• I don't like greed, I don't like ignorance. I really don't like anger. But I love love.

  David Crosby

  Ignorance

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Nurture your felt love for nature. Never deny it. That love is the eons, the purifying intelligence, beauty and diversity of nature sustaining us in its perfection. Our disconnection from this love and its advice produces our hurt, greed and destructiveness. We must reconnect and restore its peaceful voice in our thoughts, soul and surroundings.

  Michael J Cohen

  Hurt, Love Is, Voice

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• God can rid your heart of greed, but it's your responsibility to remove yourself from situations that promote greediness.

  Linda Dillow

  Heart, Responsibility, Situation

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• Spirituality for the most part is a mask worn by idleness, arrogance and greed.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Arrogance, Spirituality, Mask

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4311, Library of Alexandria

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• The con is a kind of jiu-jitsu that turns the sucker's own greed into its principal weapon. The greedier you are the more likely you are to be conned, and for the greater a sum. Since people regularly dispose of their intelligence in their rush to be swindled, and then turn right around and do it again, humans must want to be duped. Institutionalized wishful thinking - the stock market, religion, advertising - is after all a cornerstone of our system.

  Luc Sante

  Thinking, People, Want

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. Which is your brand?

  B. C. Forbes

  Two, Goal, Effort

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• Up until the Depression, recession had a moral character: it was supposed to purge the body economic of the greed and excess that attends a business expansion.

  James Buchan

  Character, Expansion, Excess

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• It isn't that greed's increased. What's increased is the realization that you've got a free field to reach out for what you'd like to do.

  Paul Samuelson

  Realization, Fields, Reach Out

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• When you question a man's motives, when you say they are acting out of greed, they are in the pocket of an interest group, et cetera. It's awful hard to reach consensus. It's awful hard to reach across the table and shake hands. No matter how bitterly you disagree, though, it is always possible if you question judgment and not motive.

  Joe Biden

  Men, Hands, Acting

  "Best and worst of 2015 commencement address season". "The Five" with Eric Bolling, www.foxnews.com. May 18, 2015.

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